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2021 McKinley County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in McKinley County, NM went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,047 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2916th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in McKinley County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 28, 2021 00:30 | June 28, 2021 11:45 | 11h 15m | 126 | 1,355 |
| 2 | June 28, 2021 19:45 | June 28, 2021 23:00 | 3h 15m | 126 | 372 |
| 3 | June 29, 2021 18:30 | June 29, 2021 19:00 | 30m | 88 | 44 |
| 4 | February 3, 2021 20:30 | February 3, 2021 23:15 | 2h 45m | 35 | 42 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 12:45 | December 11, 2021 19:00 | 6h 15m | 21 | 76 |
| 6 | December 15, 2021 12:00 | December 15, 2021 13:00 | 1h | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | December 16, 2021 16:30 | December 17, 2021 00:30 | 8h | 5 | 40 |
| 8 | March 24, 2021 05:00 | March 24, 2021 05:15 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
| 9 | March 24, 2021 15:30 | March 24, 2021 18:00 | 2h 30m | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | May 29, 2021 01:45 | May 29, 2021 04:00 | 2h 15m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving McKinley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.74 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 13.0 hrs | 4.17 | 7.2 hrs | 3.66 |
| Navajo Tribal Utility Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gallup - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,739 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. McKinley County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKinley County, NM annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/new-mexico/mckinley-county